TripAdvisor Reviews Haven Hotel Dunmore East

Travel Blogs from Dunmore East

As agreed, it was my turn to experience driving Irish roads. Driving on the left was easier than trying to figure out the sense of where the car was. I drive a 4x4 at home, and this car was low and long (at least to me it seemed so). I used my right mirror a lot to see where the car was in relation to the center line. I hit a curb (or 4-5), but managed not to hit another car! Success! I started off on the narrow country roads but soon joined up ...

We walked to the Quayside, its really along the River Suir,a nice walk,and all the baskets of flowers here looking lovely, lots of things historic,and Viking treasures are around, a magnificent long boat, in beautiful condition. They came in 852 AD.... The home of Waterford Crystal of course, no longer an operational factory,as of course it is not fashionable any more. We walked for a few ...

... m not the snappiest dresser in the world and in fact, I dress to go unnoticed as best I can which in Europe, probably gets pointed fingers and jeers. The fashion for the evening seemed to work to emphasize that which was the weakest feature of the wearer. The women seemed unusually unskilled at walking on the spiked masochistic footwear that was required to get the attention of the boys. But for all that passed us that evening, none was more interesting and inebriated than the man ...

... then was bought and revamped and is hopefully making a recovery. They have a lovely showroom and in the factory visitors can see each stage of manufacture from glassblowing to cooling, cutting, engraving – the only thing they don’t have, for safety reason, is the dipping in (I think) acid to make the pieces all shiny. They make all their own wooden moulds for special pieces by hand and we saw that being done, then on to watch a couple ...

Sorry to ramble, but I love old buildings, and this one was lovely. Anyway, we came down to earth as we humbly waited for the bus back to the airport rather than having Jeeves bring the Rolls to the door. While we waited there was a toot from a rubbish truck driving by, looked up to see the driver tipping his hat at Pete and pointing……yes, he had his Aussie had on as always, ...